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Frontline Club phone hacking survey
Frontline Club asked its members in July to share their thoughts on the ongoing phone hacking scandal. The results, detailed below, make for interesting reading. They show that, of those who have responded to the survey so far, there is......more
AP vs. Bloggers
As freelance word rates go, $2.50 per word isn't bad. It's what you might expect from some of the higher end magazines in the US. However, it might not be what you expect the Associated Press (AP) to charge bloggers......more
Reporting on the forbidden
When Georg Blume of Germany and Kristin Kupfer of Austria left from Lhasa train station in the early hours of Thursday March 20 they were the last two foreign journalists to leave Tibet after being forced out by the Chinese......more
Public or Private?
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A new kind of foreign coverage?
A year ago the Boston Globe newspaper closed its last three foreign bureaux. The closures followed the axing of four foreign correspondents from the Daily Telegraph in September 2006.Writing in the Washington Post, Pamela Constable summed up the misery: "Between......more
Frontline Club phone hacking survey
by Ryan Gallagher on 18 Aug 2011Frontline Club asked its members in July to share their thoughts on the ongoing phone...more